Voice Recordings to Improve Reading
10/11/2023 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Hearing their recorded voices can help young readers improve their literacy skills.
Whether on a cell phone or at a recording studio, it can be helpful for students to hear their own voices. Hearing themselves allows them to build fluency skills, including proper phrasing and expression. This tactic can also help build comprehension and allow students to hear the tone and pace of their own reading.
Learning to Read is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.
Voice Recordings to Improve Reading
10/11/2023 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Whether on a cell phone or at a recording studio, it can be helpful for students to hear their own voices. Hearing themselves allows them to build fluency skills, including proper phrasing and expression. This tactic can also help build comprehension and allow students to hear the tone and pace of their own reading.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- When you're recording, you're gonna be using this mic to speak into, okay?
- Okay.
- One of the most exciting things for young readers at the Rutherford County Technology Engagement Center is the recording studio.
It takes literacy beyond text and promotes curiosity about the media we consume and create.
Whether you come in and try out our studio or use your cell phone at home, recording your child reading helps improve their skills.
It all starts with a book.
Rose has picked out one of her favorites.
- The duck will remind her of the farm where she was born.
- Adults can help their child record their voice while they read, and kids can experiment doing it themselves too.
Hearing yourself read builds fluency skills, including proper phrasing and expression.
It helps build comprehension.
It allows kids to hear the tone and pace of their own reading.
When kids hear their own voice, it allows them to make a personal connection with what they are reading - [Child] On the way, she'll see the tree in your backyard.
- [Announcer] Made possible by the generous support of The Marlene and Spencer Hayes Foundation.
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Learning to Read is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.